[Trainer-talk] Issue With Hyper Links

[David Goldfield]

Barbara,
I think that you and I are in agreement regarding bypassing the 
favorites bar particularly for users dependent on the keyboard. Pressing 
ctrl-D is the quickest way of adding a Web site to the favorites menu.
Google Chrome should be fairly usable with JAWS although I admit that I 
have not used version 23 of Chrome which is currently the latest 
version.  I've done more testing with NVDA than I have with JAWS but I 
have done some testing with JAWS and it should work, more or less.  
Google Chrome has been known to work well and then suddenly something 
gets broken when a new release comes out.  This happened a while ago 
regarding navigating combo boxes.  For a while it seemed to work and 
then suddenly a new version of Chrome came out and it was totally 
broken.  It now works, at least a version or two back, but you may find 
that JAWS reads extra verbeage when navigating through items contained 
within a combo box.  I've also noticed that often the first page which 
is loaded doesn't load into the screen reader's virtual buffer.  In 
plain English what this means is that the page may load visually but 
will not be readable by the screen reader until a new page is loaded.  
As I've said I've not done testing with version 23 of Chrome with 
version 14 of JAWS.
David
Barbara Johnson wrote:
> Can you bypass the Favorites Bar in IE9 and simply "Add to Favorites" by
> pressing Alt + A?
>
> This may or may not help.  I was hurrying too fast when I updated Adobe
> Flash Player, and accidentally installed the Google Toolbar add-on in IE9.
> This caused me to be unable to open links, especially if they were
> incorporated in Email messages that I had chosen to view online.  I had to
> uninstall the Toolbar from the Control Panel.  I assume Chrome might have a
> universal issue with links, since the Toolbar does, but I'd like to know.
> I'd be interested to know whether anyone has had any luck at all with Google
> Chrome and JAWS.  My supervisor commented that he thought it was accessible.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trainer-talk [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Therese Gardner
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 5:51 AM
> To: trainer-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Trainer-talk] Issue With Hyper Links
>
> Hello All:
>
> My name is Therese and I have been a lurker on your list for some time now.
> I am not an assistive technology trainer but the person who helps others
> find you all.
>
> Recently, I have been having issues with my laptop. It is nothing critical
> just more annoying. I figured I would pose the question and see if any of
> you have suggestions.
>
> A few months back, I was having difficulty with my favorite bar (adding to
> it). A friend and I attempted to reinstall Internet 9 hoping this would
> resolve the issue. No luck. We then decided to try Google Chrome.
>
> Yes, I understand that Google Chrome isn't very accessible for us JAWS
> users, so let us not even go there.
>
> Google Chrome did allow for me to add to my favorites bar. So at least that
> problem was solved.
>
> However another problem has reared its ugly head. Now I am unable to click
> on a link within an e-mail, word document, excel document, and the list goes
> on.
>
> Researching information on the web, suggestions are to make changes in the
> register. Neither I or friends feel comfortable doing that.
>
> Any ideas or do I just continue to cut copy the links? Or even simply dump
> everything on the laptop and start all over from ground zero. That should be
> loads of fun too.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Therese
>
>
>
>
>
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